Help My name in katakana

[thecoop]

How would it be written?
Woodley.
☝
Is there a way of spelling that?

 

[d4v1d_su]

I think it's uuderi (ウーデリ)
let's wait for the expert.

by the way, how about David
is it ダウイド

 

[Nall-ohki]

Woodley: ウードリ
David:デイビッド

Katakanization is a strange thing sometimes.

 

[thecoop]

Whys that? Was it created just for the western world?

I read ウードリ as Woo Dolly.

What does the last name read in this picture?


I know the first name, but the last is what it gave me for woodley.

 

[JimmySeal]

The picture says uudarii.

I think Woodley should probably be ウードリー.

Katakana wasn't created for the western world. It was invented centuries before Japan had any contact with any western country.

 

[Nall-ohki]

JimmySeal - you're correct. ウードリー is more commonly used.

thecoop - Despite what you read it as, katakana is more often picked by it's spelling than by it's pronunciation. It's a rule I don't much care for, but it's the general way things are done, and I suspect the reason is that most Japanese have more exposure with written English than spoken English, and so it is more natural for them to translate it that way. Just remember this: katakana follows the rules of Japanese, not the rules of the original language.

 

[epigene]

I'd write Woodley as ウッドリー or ウドリー

I think it sounds better because "wood" is usually written ウッド in Japanese.